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Antigone's ghosts : the long legacy of war and genocide in five countries / Mark A. Wolfgram

Wolfgram, Mark A., 1970- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]

ix, 289 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-68448-005-0 ( : paperback); 978-1-68448-006-7 ( : cloth)

2018026287

OCoLC: 1085387541     

HM554

303.6/6     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 71.11 (Gesellschaft) <Soziologie> ; 89.76 (Friedensforschung; Konfliktforschung)

*Völkermord ; Gesellschaft ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Krieg ; Geschichte 1900-2000     Zum Register

LOC-SH: War and society ; Political violence -- Social aspects ; Genocide -- Social aspects ; Collective memory

"Sophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the perpetual problems of human societies, families, and individuals, who are caught up in the terrible aftermath of mass violence. What is one to do after the killing has stopped? What can be done to try and prevent a round of new violence? The tragic and dramatic tension in the play is put in motion by setting an unyielding Antigone against King Creon. As we see through the investigation of how Germany, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and Turkey have dealt with their histories of mass violence and genocide in the 20th century, the forces represented by Antigone and Creon remain very much part of our world today. Through a comparison of the five countries and their political institutions (democratic and authoritarian) and cultural traditions (Western and non-Western), we begin to appreciate the different pathways that societies have taken when confronting their violent histories"--

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Germany -- Japan -- Spain -- Yugoslavia -- Turkey